Sentence examples for contracture for from inspiring English sources

Thus, the impairments were the summed degrees of MCP and PIP joint contracture for each finger.

There can be more than one type of tissue involved in the development of a contracture; for example, immobility leads to both muscle atrophy and changes in the capsule which both contribute to loss in ROM.

Hence, hand profiles were described by anatomically consistent images rendered by a medical artist using a 3-dimensional hand model allowing for precise control of joint contracture for each finger.

For all 159 treated fingers for which follow-up measurements were available, mean post-treatment contracture for the MCP joints was 9° (SD 14, median 0), and for the PIP joints it was 15° (SD 18, median 10).

For all hands, mean MCP contracture for the treated finger (the finger with the most severe total extension deficit in hands with more than 1 treated finger) was 43º (SD 27, median 45), mean PIP contracture was 36º (SD 29, median 33), and mean total extension deficit was 79º (SD 34, median 75).

The aim of this study was to report on a new technique for the effective release of contractures for wide scars using reversed Z-plasty and its variations.

Spontaneous recovery of rat knee contractures for 4 weeks allowed full reversal of 1-week-old contractures.

17, 18 Physiotherapy remains important for prevention and handling of lower-limb contractures for all SMA types.

A functional classification of joints allows to best appreciate the importance of joint contractures for the most movable joints, diarthrodial, to synarthroses which are joints characterized by very little to no movement.

Triceps surae contracture: implications for foot and ankle surgery.

Splinting after contracture release for Dupuytren's disease of the hand is widely advocated.